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To: Bill Ulrich who wrote (480)	1/19/2003 6:42:29 PM
From: Dale Baker	Respond to of 2534

If it keeps the drunks at home and they are not beating their wives and children instead of weaving around the road, sounds like an effective program to me. I don't see the philosophical underpinnings for someone claiming a right to become a lethal, physical, immediate hazard to the rest of humanity. We don't let pilots fly planes if they had a few drinks; no difference between killing an innocent family of four or 74 passengers on a 737. First people complain because government and the courts undermine the idea of individual responsibility (i.e. letting people blame abstract collective forces like "society" or their upbringing), then they complain because the law chooses to make individual responsibility the pivotal issue in a criminal conviction. No one has the right to destroy the property and lives of their neighbors, period. And government exists (among other reasons) to try to stop it. Did you ever meet anyone convicted of drunk driving whose blood alcohol level wasn't over the legal limit? And so it goes....